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Prescription Drug Abuse

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Protecting Loved Ones from Prescription Drug Abuse or Overdoses Starts at Home

Vol. 14 Issue 8

Prescription drug abuse may be one of the most hidden types of substance abuse ever. There’s no liquor bottles in the trash, no needles hidden in a box under the bed, no little baggie of green leaves or white powder in the backpack. In fact, everything may look normal at first glance.

Maybe the first sign of a problem is that you lift a prescription bottle of your own or a family member’s and it seems a little light. You look inside and note that the supply is lower than you thought and make a note to get a refill soon. Maybe the prescription is hydrocodone (Vicodin or Lortab) left over from some dental work or minor surgery or maybe you have a bottle of over-the-counter cough medicine from a child’s illness last winter.

According to national surveys, more than 75 percent of teenage prescription drug abusers say they got those drugs from friends or family. It’s easy enough to slip into the bathroom and lift a few pills from someone’s bottle of OxyContin, Xanax or Valium. And even if your children would never do this (or you don’t have children), visitors or workmen to your house or your aging mother’s house could check the medicine cabinet while using the bathroom or working on the house. Once someone has your medication (or perhaps the medication of a family member you are caring for) then it’s up for grabs.

About 9 percent of high school seniors admit to abusing a narcotic drug other than heroin – mostly prescription opiates and opioids like methadone, OxyContin, Percocet, or Vicodin. And approximately 40 percent of these students feel that it is “easy” or “very easy” to get their hands on these drugs.

The answer is very simple: lock prescriptions away. It can be as easy as stopping by an office supply store and getting a small locking box. Place your medications in the box, keep it in a drawer and keep the keys well hidden elsewhere. This will prevent casual theft. Or you can locate a locking medicine cabinet easily enough. They are available online for $100 to $200 plus an installation charge if you have a handyman mount it in the bathroom.

And if you have prescriptions that are no longer needed, don’t hold onto them. Rather than flushing them down the toilet, which adds them to the water supply, check with local pharmacies to see if they will dispose of them for you or contact your local waste service company and ask about hazardous waste disposal.

A very little bit of work on your part can help keep these drugs out of circulation in your community.

Source: Testimony of Stephen J. Pasierf, Abuse of Prescription and Over the Counter Drug, March 1, 2008, http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/About/NewsReleases/International_Narcotics
Source: Monitoring the Future Study, 2009, http://monitoringthefuture.org/data/09data/fig09_10.pdf
Source: Proper Disposal of Prescription Drugs, October 2009, http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publications/pdf/prescrip_disposal.pdf

Are Flu Shots Necessary for your Family?

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DO YOU KNOW ENOUGH TO DECIDE IF YOUR FAMILY SHOULD GET FLU SHOTS?

Vol. 6 Issue 132

With flu season soon upon us, you should consider the following information before deciding if your family will get the flu shot.

Each year a “flu shot” is prepared based on the guess-work of Federal health agency officials, who try to determine which of three flu strains will be prevalent in the U.S. during the following year, so they can select which strain to include in the vaccine.

The flu vaccine is prepared from fluids of chick embryos that have been inoculated with a specific type of influenza virus. The virus is then activated with formaldehyde and preserved with thimerosal — a derivative of mercury.

If health officials select the correct strain of the virus, the vaccine is thought to be 70-80% effective in preventing the flu in healthy persons under 65 years of age — the efficacy drops to only 30-40% among those over 65 years. Health officials don’t always make the right prediction, which lowers the effectiveness for that year.

According to the National Vaccine Information Center’s fact sheet, “Influenza is a respiratory infection that produces fever, chills, sore throat, muscle aches and cough.” Symptoms can last for a week or longer and can be deadly for the elderly or those suffering from diabetes, kidney dysfunction and heart disease.

The vaccine does not protect against throat, respiratory, gastrointestinal and ear infections caused by bacteria or other kinds of viruses; it serves only to provide temporary immunity against the three specific viral strains included in the year’s vaccine.

Adverse reactions typically being within 12 hours of vaccination and last for several days; these include fever, fatigue, painful joints and headaches. The most serious reaction, which occurs within two to four weeks of vaccination is Guillain-Barre Syndrome, which is characterized by muscle weakness, unsteady gait, numbness, tingling, pain and sometimes paralysis of one or more limbs or the face.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, those at high-risk include any person who is sick with a fever, has an impaired immune system, has an egg or mercury allergy, and has a history of Guillian-Barre Syndrome. Pregnant women should be aware the flu vaccine contains the mercury-derivative thimerosal, which has been linked to causing brain damage and developmental delays in babies whose mothers were exposed to high levels of mercury during pregnancy.

SOURCE: National Vaccine Information Center, NVIC, www.909shot.com/Diseases/influenzafacts.htm; 800-909-shot.

Vaccinations for Profit, Not Safety

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Standard Vaccination Schedule For Profit, Not Safety

Vol. 14 Issue 43

The immunization schedule in this country keeps growing ever more complex as time goes on. (Or, we might say, as “Big Pharma” finds more and more ways to make a profit.)

Thirty years ago, infants were only vaccinated against five diseases – diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, rotavirus and polio. Now, according to standard immunization schedules, healthy infants are scheduled to receive immunizations against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, Haemophilus influenzae type b, varicella, and pneumococcus.

The CDC’s recommended vaccination schedule now states that American children should receive 25 to 30 vaccines before they are 5 years old. But look at the grid for these immunizations: When your tiny, helpless baby is just 2 months old, he or she could visit the doctor and be immunized for – all in one day – Hepatitis B, rotavirus, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, Haemophilus influenza B, pneumococcal and polio. At 12 months, the list is even more horrible.

And while an adult may have more strength with which to fight back, the assault does not stop. What vaccines would the CDC recommend for healthy adults? The Singer Health Report writer, an exceedingly healthy female of 58 years, consulted the CDC’s quiz, What Vaccines Do You Need? (http://www2.cdc.gov/nip/adultImmSched). Answering the questions (not living in a nursing home, don’t plan to travel internationally soon, etc.) the writer found that she needs a booster of Tetanus, Diptheria and Pertussis and a seasonal flu shot. By receiving these shots, she would receive 50 mcg. of thimerosal, and doses of aluminum, hydrochloric acid and formaldehyde!

Next, the quiz was consulted for an extremely healthy 45-year-old male who travels internationally for business and who lives with his mother-in-law from Venezuela. He would need the following vaccines: Measles, mumps and rubella, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, seasonal flu, Meningococcal and the Tetanus, Diptheria and Pertussis booster. This healthy person, if he caught up on his vaccinations before his next international trip, would receive 75 mcg of thimerosal plus multiple doses of aluminum, hydrochloric acid, monosodium glutamate and formaldehyde.

To understand this assault on health from this multiplicity of vaccines, it would be necessary to go much further than just an analysis of the effects of thimerosal. The effects of all the other additives and the forms of the viruses themselves – and the sheer volume of confusing and challenging material to the immune system – must be examined in detail before this subject is put to bed.

Source: National Academy of Sciences, Infant Immunizations Not Shown to Be Harmful to Children’s Immune Systems, February 20, 2010, http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=10306

Source: Centers for Disease Control, Recommended Immunization Schedule for Persons Aged 0 Through 6 Years, 2010, http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/schedules/downloads/child/2010/10_0-6yrs-schedule-pr.pdf

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, What Vaccines Do You Need?, January 12, 2010, http://www2.cdc.gov/nip/adultImmSched/

Source: Institute for Vaccine Safety, Thimerosal Content in Some US Licensed Vaccines, February 23, 2010, http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/thi-table.htm

Effectiveness of Flu Shots

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Flu Vaccine Posts Dismal Performance

Vol. 13 Issue 31

The results are in regarding the effectiveness of flu vaccinations for the year 2007, and the statistics are not very good for the drug companies. During this year, the effectiveness of the vaccine in protecting Americans dropped way down to just 44 percent.

Not only did the effectiveness of the shots drop, but so did public demand for the number of doses produced. According to information released by the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, 18 million of the 121 million produced for the 2006-07 flu season went unused. The following year for the 2007-08 season, 27 million of the 140 million doses produced where never delivered.

Given this dismal rate of success, and with more and more information coming out on the potentially harmful side effects of vaccinations, wouldn’t it seem logical that doctors and government advisors would be guiding Americans to alternative flu-fighting solutions?

Unfortunately this is not the case, mainly because flu shots are a multi-billion dollar annual business in the United States and worldwide. Consider this projection: By the year 2012, the global vaccine market is expected to top $23.8 billion.

What the government and doctors did was get together with drug company representatives to see if they could come up with ways to sell the public on getting more flu shots. The American Medical Association, together with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) held a 2-day “National Influenza Vaccine Summit” that was also attended by representatives of the five pharmaceutical companies that sell flu vaccine in the United States.

One idea that came out of this conference was that doctors should become much more aggressive in “suggesting” to their patients that they get their flu shots. One attending physician said this is how his office became more proactive in making sure their patients received the shot. “When the patient signs in, the lady who is taking their information asks, ‘Have you had the flu vaccine this year?,’ and if the answer is ‘No,’ we say, “Well, today you are getting it.’”

One such aggressive effort was naming the week following Thanksgiving “National Influenza Vaccination Week” and urging people to get their flu shot. Regardless of such hype, Americans didn’t respond to this public information campaign according to CDC. Public use did not increase during this time.

It’s good to see that Americans did not respond to this added pressure to get their flu shots and that drug companies were left with millions of unused vaccine doses in their warehouses.

Americans would be wise to learn more about non-drugging means to protect themselves during the flu season. Simply staying well-rested, well-hydrated by drinking ample water, and keeping their body defense mechanisms up through good nutrition and additional vitamin intake as needed, could offer the best defense against getting the flu.

Source: The World Chiropractic Alliance. “Flu Vaccine Success Rate Down to 44% in 2007.” November 2008. http://www.worldchiropracticalliance.org/tcj/2008/nov/a.htm

Former Glaxo Lawyer in Trouble

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Former Glaxo Lawyer Indicted

A former vice president and associate general counsel for the British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline was just indicted by the U.S. Justice Department on charges of making false statements and obstructing a federal investigation into illegal drug marketing. [Read the full article here.]

Lauren C. Stevens of Durham, N.C. is accused of lying to the Food and Drug Administration by denying that Glaxo had promoted the antidepressant Wellbutrin for off-label use as a weight loss treatment.

Doctors are free to use any approved drug for any use they see fit, but pharmaceutical companies are prohibited from marketing the drugs for uses that have not been approved by the F.D.A.

In October GlaxoSmithKline had agreed to pay $750 million to settle civil and criminal complaints that it sold defective drugs, including the antidepressant Paxil, manufactured in Puerto Rico.

While psychiatrists cry about “reducing stigma,” it is their labels and treatment that initially create the stigma. And now, they are pushing depression drugs for people who want to lose weight.

[Editorial Comment: Talk about creating stigma -- "you must be depressed if you want to lose weight;" give me a break!]

People are labeled “mentally ill” with diagnoses that are completely subjective and then subjected to dangerous and addictive mind-altering drugs in order to change their behavior. It’s pretty clear where the “stigmatization” is coming from. It’s coming from the mental health monopoly that stands to profit at the sake of people seeking help.

Click here for more information about the harmful effects of Wellbutrin (buproprion HCL) and Paxil (paroxetine).

Click here for more information about psychiatric fraud.

Click here for more information about the alternatives to psychiatric drugging.

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They invent the problem. They develop the product. And sell it for billions. The perfect formula for making a killing … literally.
Brutally factual, this 90-minute documentary exposes the greatest financial con this planet has ever seen.
The facts are hard to believe, but fatal to ignore.

chiropractor carbondale Former Glaxo Lawyer in Trouble

This is the story of the high-income partnership between psychiatry and drug companies that has created an $80 billion psychotropic drug profit center. But appearances are deceiving. How valid are psychiatrists’ diagnoses-and how safe are their drugs? So the question is: How did psychotropic drugs, with no target illness, no known curative powers and a long and extensive list of side effects, become the go-to treatment for every kind of psychological distress? And how did the psychiatrists espousing these drugs come to dominate the field of mental treatment? Click here to find out.

MedWatch is your source for timely safety information on drugs regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and for reporting adverse reactions (side effects.)

http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/

MedWatch is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) program for reporting serious reactions, product quality problems and product use errors with human medical products, such as drugs and medical devices.

If you think you or someone in your family has experienced a serious reaction to a medical product or drug, or to electric shock, you can take the reporting form to your doctor (who is not required to report adverse reactions) or you may complete the Online Reporting Form yourself via the internet. Let us know if you do this!

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Psychiatric Drugs

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chiropractor carbondale Psychiatric Drugs

This searing documentary exposes how devastating-and deadly-psychiatric drugs can be for children and families.

Psychiatrists claim their drugs are safe for children?

Once you hear what eight brave mothers, their families, health experts, drug counselors and doctors have to say instead, you will come away convinced of one thing…

Psychiatrists are DEAD WRONG.

Watch the Dead Wrong documentary now online at http://www.cchr.org/.

Order the DVD to show to your family and friends.

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chiropractor carbondale Psychiatric Drugs

They invent the problem. They develop the product. And sell it for billions. The perfect formula for making a killing … literally.
Brutally factual, this 90-minute documentary exposes the greatest financial con this planet has ever seen.
The facts are hard to believe, but fatal to ignore.

chiropractor carbondale Psychiatric Drugs

This is the story of the high-income partnership between psychiatry and drug companies that has created an $80 billion psychotropic drug profit center. But appearances are deceiving. How valid are psychiatrists’ diagnoses-and how safe are their drugs? So the question is: How did psychotropic drugs, with no target illness, no known curative powers and a long and extensive list of side effects, become the go-to treatment for every kind of psychological distress? And how did the psychiatrists espousing these drugs come to dominate the field of mental treatment? Click here to find out.

MedWatch is your source for timely safety information on drugs regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and for reporting adverse reactions (side effects.)

http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/

MedWatch is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) program for reporting serious reactions, product quality problems and product use errors with human medical products, such as drugs and medical devices.

If you think you or someone in your family has experienced a serious reaction to a medical product or drug, or to electric shock, you can take the reporting form to your doctor (who is not required to report adverse reactions) or you may complete the Online Reporting Form yourself via the internet. Let us know if you do this!

Forest Lab Lawsuit

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Forest Labs Settles Some Psych Drug Suicide Suits

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch published an article on Saturday and Sunday, October 30 and 31, 2010, describing fallout from Forest Pharmaceuticals’ guilty plea to illegally marketing antidepressants to children.

“A month after its Earth City [St. Louis, Missouri] subsidiary pleaded guilty of illegally marketing antidepressants to children and adolescents, Forest Laboratories is now settling a string of wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits from the parents of children who took the drugs Celexa and Lexapro.”

“Fifty-four lawsuits, mostly involving suicides and attempted suicides by teenagers in various parts of the country, accuse the New York-based pharmaceutical company of concealing a negative pediatric study on Celexa, duping physicians about the drug’s clinical trials, and targeting children in aggressive promotions of Celexa and a sister drug, Lexapro.”

“In vivid detail, the complaints allege that children under the influence of Celexa and Lexapro committed acts of suicide and violence.”

Read the full article here http://www.stltoday.com/business/article_c569f2c4-58a7-5432-a939-ff22e90583e5.html and thank the author, Jim Doyle, for his reporting.

Weight Gain With Children

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WEIGHT GAIN, OTHER HEALTH PROBLEMS CAUSED BY MEDICATIONS GIVEN TO CHILDREN

November 13, 2009 — More research appears to confirm recent results of a large, prospective cohort study that the use of atypical antipsychotics (AAPs) increases the risk of significant weight gain and varied metabolic changes in children and adolescents with mental illness and behavioral disturbances. According to Dr. Panagiotopoulos, a growing body of evidence in adults demonstrating that AAPs cause significant weight gain, hyperlipidemia, and insulin resistance has raised concerns among the medical community in general, and the psychiatric community in particular, about whether these drugs may increase the risk of premature cardiovascular disease in children and adolescents. [http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/712079]

Chiropractic Helps Heal

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“CHIROPRACTIC GAVE ME MY LIFE BACK!”

Vol. 3 Issue 56

CASE STUDY:

“In March of 1997 I was a passenger in a Suburban that was T-Boned on my side by a car doing 92 miles per hour. The jaws of life were used to pry me from the car. Ihad suffered a full 4th degree anterior clavical separation, a cracked rib and a concussion which put me in and out of the hospital with vertigo and other complications. “I had to move to Washington D.C. shortly after the accident. I barely remember the four-day drive, other than crying a lot, not being able to put my own hair in a pony-tail and my husband having to bathe me.

“I was unable to work during the first month in our new apartment. I decided to take myself off of the steroids I was prescribed, which were making my body swell, and the pain killers, because they made me feel completely absent from life. But still I sat alone in our apartment. Icouldn’t drive. I couldn’t walk far or take deep breaths because of the cracked rib. It felt like my brain was dying. Iknew I had to get moving and the insurance money was running out. What kind of job would I apply for in the shape I was in? I needed help.

“Then I met Dr. Nancy MacKenzie, D.C. I had gone with a friend who said she had helped her with some lifelong digestive problems. As I watched my friend get her adjustment, I thought, “How can she help me when I can’t even bear to be touched where I hurt? And what does chiropractic have to do with digestive problems, anyway?

“I learned a lot from Dr. MacKenzie that year. I learned about referral pain and how her trigger point and muscle work could help the rest of my body. She taught me how my everyday life could be physical therapy; ironing, going up and down the stairs, walking to a nearby grocery store… Soon, I could climb three flights of stairs carrying laundry baskets, and I was excited just to be able to hang clothes again.

“Dr. MacKenzie continued to work on me and guide my recovery. I needed someone to tell me that all the writhing, sweating and ‘doing’ would slowly pay off. It did.

“I was finally working again and ultimately offered a job to manage theAlternative Healing Clinic Ihad been going to for my chiropractic care. My life was changed.

“Because of the chiropractic treatment Ireceived, I did not have the surgery on my shoulder, which amazed the original doctors I had seen. I have full rotation of my arm! I continue to work in chiropractic after yet another move, with Dr. Burke Mays. I am his Public Relations CA (PRCA). My headaches are now only periodic. Dr. Mays has cleared away a lot of the adhesions around my rib cage.

“Just last month I woke up and realized I was pain-free! I was so amazed. Chiropractic gave me my life back! Iride horses and have picked up golf again. I exercise regularly and lift weights.

“As a PRCA, I love telling others that chiropractic can change their lives. It’s safe, and it works!— the understatement of my lifetime.”

— Sara Jane Hampton

SOURCE: Sara Jane Hampton, Burke Mays, D.C., Watertown Family Chiropractic, Watertown, MN, April 1999.

Antibiotics linked to Allergies and Asthma

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ANTIBIOTICS LINKED TO DEVELOPMENT OF ALLERGIES AND ASTHMA

Vol. 7 Issue 127

A study conducted at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit has linked antibiotics to allergies and asthma in children. Children who received antibiotics within their first six months were at an increased risk of developing asthma and allergies by the age of seven.

448 children were followed from birth to seven years; the children were divided by gender into even groups.

Researchers collected data about all prescribed oral antibiotics; blood tests that measures immunoglobulin E (the antibody that causes allergies); skin reaction tests that determines if a person is hypersensitive to an allergen, and on all clinical visits. Researchers also collected environmental samples from the homes of the children.

The data was collected before birth and then at the first four birthdays. Each child was then evaluated at 6 to 7-years-old by a certified allergist.

Forty-nine percent of the children had received antibiotics by the age of six-months; the most commonly prescribed antibiotic was penicillin. Other finding included:

* Children who received antibiotics by six months old were 1.5 times more likely to develop allergies by age seven than children who did not receive antibiotics, and 2.5 times more likely to develop asthma.
* Children who lived with less than two pets by the age of six months given at least one antibiotic were 1.7 times more likely to develop allergies and three times more likely to develop asthma.
* Children whose mothers had a history of allergies were twice as likely to develop allergies. Those who were breast-fed more than four months, and received antibiotics by six months were three times as likely to develop allergies; the risk of asthma was not influenced by breast feeding and antibiotics.

According to Christine Cole Johnson, PhD, lead author of the study and senior epidemiologist for Henry Ford’s Department of Biostatistics and Research Epidemiology, “…we need to be more prudent in prescribing antibiotics for children at such an early age. In the past, many of them were prescribed unnecessarily, especially for viral infections like colds and the flu when the antibiotics would have no effect anyway.”

SOURCE: Henry Ford Health System press release, Science Daily, October 1, 2003; WCA News,
www.wcanews.com, October 2003; www.newscientist.com, September 30, 2003; BBC News, news.bbc.co.uk.